I’ve been heading south from Tempe, into the Tohono O’odham Nation. I’m very close to my next destination; I don’t expect to make a lot of distance tomorrow, but I’ll probably get there Sunday.
South of Casa Grande it’s been pretty much nothing but rough desert terrain. You have to zoom Google Maps in quite a lot before any “roads” show up, and they’re just unnamed tracks through the desert. Now I’m climbing upward in the Quinlan Mountains.
In real life it’s been the usual Syracuse area trails. The other day on the Loop the Lake trail I thought someone had balanced a pebble on the railing; then I looked more closely and discovered it was a teeny frog, maybe about 2 cm long.
Is it a pebble? Is it a frog?
September was, for once, a very decent month. Average daily steps was about my usual for this time of year, and average daily distance was an all-walk record. That was due to a solid six bike rides, equalling September 2022 but the average ride length was comfortably higher than back then.
A map showing my progress is here, a spreadsheet with progress detail is here, and a Google Earth KMZ file is in this Google Drive folder. Present coordinates: 31.969°N, 111.610°W.
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